Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leaving Earth 2

Leaving Earth

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2015 at 17:48:08 (UTC)

Original – If one really wants to leave Earth this is what he would see looking back. This is what MESSENGER recorded during one of its Earth flybys.

Reason: Whoa!
Articles in which this image appears: Escape velocity, Gravity assist, Interplanetary spaceflight, List of Earth flybys, MESSENGER
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator: NASA

Nom Nergaal (talk) 00:27, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- Where is the nominator ? DreamSparrow ^Chat 19:31, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unconfirmed reports indicate Nergaal has left Earth and is therefore off the grid. Sca (talk) 20:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:57, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]